About

Yash Agarwal is a highly skilled software engineer with over 3 years of experience in product development. He is an expert in Javascript, particularly Node and React, and has a passion for analyzing and solving complex problems. Yash is also a data enthusiast with a talent for creating scalable ETL pipelines and improving database performance. Currently, Yash is working as a Software Engineer at PropertyGuru Group, where he is responsible for developing and maintaining various software products. Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Product Engineer at Goodera, where he created a scalable CDC-based real-time ETL pipeline that could handle up to 1L messages per second. He also changed the analytical data database from MongoDB to Amazon Athena, which led to a 95% decrease in rendering time for dashboards and a 30% cost saving. Yash's expertise in product development extends to his work at Goodera as a Product Engineer, where he contributed to the development of a BI tool named Canvas. He introduced a caching layer (Redis) that led to a 93% decrease in API response time and developed an algorithm to decide the optimum place for a new incoming widget, decreasing dashboard configuration time by 10%. He also owned up the MongoDB-based backend module for the product and later the entire analytics module that powers the numbers on the dashboard. Yash holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is also a graduate of Shiv Jyoti Convent School, Kota, and Modern Senior Secondary School. Yash's technical skills include software engineering, ETL, Javascript, MongoDB, Amazon Athena, backend development, frontend development, and Redis. With his relevant experience of 4.28 years, Yash is a valuable asset to any organization that requires a skilled software engineer with expertise in product development and data analysis.